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title: Otoki--the Place of the Axe--is the name for Brazenose, but there is… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Otoki--the Place of the Axe--is the name for Brazenose, but there is an ancient burying-ground there, upon the misty mountain immediately above the little Maori village of Onuku, on the beach side, which is called Otehore; the _Wahi-tapu_, or cemetery, makes it doubly sacred. Who acts: Otoki, ancien
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Little People of the Mist., sentence 25

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Otoki--the Place of the Axe--is the name for Brazenose, but there is an ancient burying-ground there, upon the misty mountain immediately above the little Maori village of Onuku, on the beach side, which is called Otehore; the \_Wahi-tapu\_, or cemetery, makes it doubly sacred.

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**Who acts:** Otoki, ancient burying ground, ground · **What happens:** be, call, make, sacre · **To what, where:** name, beach side · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, The Little People of the Mist.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Otoki, ancient burying ground, ground), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg73766:14:25
# text = Otoki--the Place of the Axe--is the name for Brazenose, but there is an ancient burying-ground there, upon the misty mountain immediately above the little Maori village of Onuku, on the beach side, which is called Otehore; the _Wahi-tapu_, or cemetery, makes it doubly sacred.
1	Otoki	Otoki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Place	Place	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Axe	axe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Brazenose	brazenose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	17	expl	_	_
17	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
18	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
19	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
20	burying	burying	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
23	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	misty	misty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
29	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	above	above	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
32	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
33	Maori	Maori	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	Onuku	Onuku	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
38	on	on	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	beach	beach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
43	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	45	nsubj:pass	_	_
44	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	45	aux:pass	_	_
45	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	41	acl:relcl	_	_
46	Otehore	Otehore	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	52	punct	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
49	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	52	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	Wahi	Wahi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	52	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	50	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	tapu	tapu	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	52	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
55	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
56	cemetery	cemetery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
58	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	52	parataxis	_	_
59	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	61	nsubj	_	_
60	doubly	doubly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	61	advmod	_	_
61	sacred	sacre	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	58	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Otoki | the name and the Wahi tapu or cemetery |  |  |  | for Brazenose; the Wahi tapu or cemetery *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** | present | a ancient burying ground |  |  | there; there |  | the misty mountain above the little Maori village of Onuku and the beach side *conj* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **call** | present · passive |  | the beach side |  |  |  | Otehore *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 4 | **make** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **sacre** | past | ground |  |  |  |  | doubly *property* | tree rules |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, Project Gutenberg book 73766 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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